This is a list of environmental research institutes, by country or region. These organizations undertake research on the sustainable management of resources, including water, energy and biodiversity.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2014)

Australia

Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM)
Cooperative Research Centre
Environment Institute, University of Adelaide
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment (HIE), University of Western Sydney
Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), the University of Queensland
ANSTO

Canada

Colombia

International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) (Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical)

Denmark

Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI)
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) (secretariat)
Danish Centre for Environment and Energy (DCE)

Estonia

Estonian Environmental Research Centre (EERC) ^[1]
- Estonian Environmental Research Institute (operates within the EERC) ^[2]

European Union

European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

Finland

Finnish Environment Institute^[3]

France

Curie Institute (Paris)

Germany

Ghana

Institute for Environment and Sanitation Studies (IESS)

Greece

Kalamos Island biological field station

Hong Kong SAR

Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD) at PolyU
Research Centre for Sustainable Hong Kong (CSHK) at City University

India

Center for Environmental Nuclear Research (CENR)
Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT)
CEPT Research And Development Foundation (CRDF)
Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI)
National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Centre for Environment Education (CEE)
Sri Paramakalyani Centre for Environmental Sciences (SPKCES)
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Nalanda University Centre - Tribhuvan College^[8]
Centre for Climate Change Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India (CCCR)^[9]

Iran

International Research Center for Water and Environment (IRCWE)
Zenderud Environmental Research Center (ZERC)

Ireland

Environmental Research Institute (ERI)^[10]

Israel

Arava Institute for Environmental Studies (AIES)
Israel Institute for Biological Research (IBR)

Italy

Institute of Ecosystem Study (CNR-ISE)

Japan

Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR)
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)^[11]

Kazakhstan

Sustainable Kazakhstan Research Institute (SKRI)

Kenya

National Environment Management Authority (NEMA)

Netherlands

Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN)
Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW)^[12]
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)^[13]

Nigeria

Centre for Environmental Research & Training (CERT)^[14]
Institute of Environmental Accountants^[15]

New Zealand

Environmental Research Institute (University of Waikato)
Centre for Sustainability^[16]
GNS Science (formerly the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences)
NIWA (National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research)
Te Waiora Joint Institute for Freshwater Management (University of Waikato and NIWA)
Cawthron Institute
ESR (Institute of Environmental Science and Research)
Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

Norway

Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research^[17]

Panama

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Philippines

Environmental and Climate Change Research Institute - ECCRI

Poland

Curie Institute (Warsaw)

Portugal

Environmental Health Institute (ISAMB)^[18]

Romania

National R&D Institute for Industrial Ecology - ECOIND

Russia

Mir Environmental Effects Payload (MEEP)

Singapore

NUS Environmental Research Institute^[19]

Spain

Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, ICTA UAB^[20]

South Korea

Korea Environment Institute (KEI)
National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER)

Sweden

Switzerland

Center for Development and Environment (CDE)
Centre for International Environmental Studies (CIES)

Taiwan

Research Center for Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Research Center for Future Earth (NTU RCFE)
Centre for Global Change and Sustainability Science Center (CGCSS)

United Kingdom

Cabot Institute, University of Bristol
Center for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)
Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)
Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment, Imperial College London
Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP), Imperial College London
Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Wales
Earthwatch Europe
Institute of Zoology (IoZ)
International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
National Institute for Environmental eScience (NIEeS)
Oxford Environmental Change Institute ^[22]
UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources (ISR)
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research

United States

Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT)
Center for Environmental Legal Studies (CELS), USA ^[23]
Center for Global Change & Earth Observations (CGCEO), USA ^[24]
Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at Berkeley Law (CLEE) ^[25]
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Conard Environmental Research Area (CERA), Iowa
Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research, Alaska
Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research (CICOR)
Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research (CICAR)
Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (CICS)
Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR)
Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS)
Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS)
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA)
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, New York
The Earth Institute, Columbia University, New York
Earth System Research Laboratories (ESRL)
Earthwatch Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC), North Dakota
Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), Washington, DC
Florida Environmental Research Institute (FERI)
Florida Institute of Oceanography (FIO)
Global Energy Network Institute (GENI), California
Global Environment Facility (GEF), Washington, DC (secretariat)
Graham Sustainability Institute, University of Michigan
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota (IonE), St. Paul, Minnesota
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS-North America), Washington, DC (secretariat)
National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)
Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Montana
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project Authority (SCCWRP)^[26]
UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC)
UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California at Los Angeles^[27]
USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies (WIES)
Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy

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^ Ecologic Institute
^ "Home - Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)". www.mcc-berlin.net/en.html. Retrieved 2020-01-08.
^ "Oeko Institute, Institute for Applied Ecology: Home". oeko.de. Retrieved 2016-07-21.
^ "Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH: Home". Wupperinst.org. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
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^ Centre for Climate Change Research
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^ IGES official website
^ "NIOO-KNAW". nioo.knaw.nl. Retrieved 2017-11-24.
^ "NIOZ". Retrieved 2022-02-10.
^ Centre for Environmental Research & Training (Nigeria), website
^ Institute of Environmental Accountants (Nigeria), website
^ "Centre for Sustainability". otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 2016-05-14.
^ "Home". www.nina.no. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
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^ "NUS Environmental Research Institute".
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